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The Geography Olympics http://www.geographyolympics.com/ Take the challenge! See how good you are at geography in the online geography olymics. So far over 420,000 people have participated from over 180 countries. Check out the leader board to see what country's citizens are best at geography. You might be surprised. This site is suffering from popularity and the host server sometimes cannot handle all the requests to visit, so you may encounter a 500 Internal Server Error. If so, try later. This is a great site when you can get to it. Posted by WEBnME @ 11/29/2004 09:24:00 PM 
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Virtual Knee Surgery - Total Knee Replacement - TKR http://www.edheads.org/activities/knee/ Now here is a really interesting and educational website that raises the bar for medical websies. More sites like this related to health and medical issues would be great. This one gives you help with medical terms, shows how a medical procedure works and more. The careful and creative use of Flash on this site makes the learning experience come alive. Posted by WEBnME @ 11/27/2004 05:54:00 PM
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Use Google with Cell Phone Text Messages http://www.google.com/sms/ If your cell phone supports text messages (SMS), then you'll want to learn about what Google is doing to support SMS. Check out the link above. Sending Your Message You can send a message to 46645 which is GOOGL on most phones. In the text of the message you can do a short query and get results sent back to you. Example - Find A Coffee Shop If you want a cup of steaming java and need to know the location of the nearest Starbucks, use the query: starbucks 12345 (replace 12345 with your own zip code or any other zip code) You'll get a message back with the phone numbers and addresses of any Starbucks in that zip code. Example - Find A Pizza Place To find nearby pizza places, you could send this query: pizza 12345 (replace 12345 with your own zip code or any other zip code) If you are on a trip, this could come in very handy when you want to find a place to eat or a hotel. Compare Prices You can also use GOOGL to compare product prices with what you are seeing in a store. Suppose you see an xyz thumb drive that you like and are interested to know whether the price is a steal or outrageous. Pop outside the store for a minute and send an message to GOOGL with the text Price xxx thumb drive Definitions You can also use GOOGL for definitions. Just send a message like this: define fartlek You'll get a message back with a definition (no it has nothing to do with stinkers). More Features Check out the link above and you'll find that you can also use GOOGL as a calculator or use it do an area look-up, zip code look-up; or to get other information. Posted by WEBnME @ 11/16/2004 11:26:00 PM
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Tired of Election News - Try Some Weird Web Museums Well, if you thought news media's coverage of the election coverage stunk, maybe its time to switch topics to something really stinky. This blog article is dedicated to the news media. You can find just about anything on the web and sure enough there is an assortment of museums dedicated to aspects toilets and toilet paper. Toilet Seats - Barney Smith has a collection of 600 assorted, decorated toilet seats online at http://www.unusualmuseums.org/toilet/ Toilet Paper - The Virtual Toilet Paper museum can be found at http://nobodys-perfect.com/vtpm/index.html Toilet Museum - Burt Stark has put together an assortment of exhibits and even a gift shop at http://www.toiletmuseum.com/index.php. If you want to skip the images and get down to facts, there is a helpful Frequently Asked Questions page where you can find out when a toilet was first shown on TV or in the movies. International Toilet Museum - If you prefer to have a bit of international flavor on this moving subject, you may want to visit http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/ which includes a history of toilets that was presented to the International Symposium on Public Toilets held in Hong Kong in 1995. You'll find that the first flush toilet dates back to about 1000 B.C. and that in 1668 Paris required the construction of toilets in all houses for the first time. American Toilet Museum - At http://www.wbur.org/special/strangemuseums/plumbing.asp you'll find the American Sanitary Plumbing Museum complete with audio explanations of early sanitary facilities. Posted by WEBnME @ 11/05/2004 11:35:00 AM
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Election Reporting Thoughts It was amazing that by early afternoon on the day following the election that two of the major news media websites were still showing less than the number of needed electoral votes needed for victory as going to Bush while reporting that Kerry was going to concede the race to Bush. Presumably Kerry's people had a pretty good idea that their chances of winning were over based on very intense scrutiny of the available results. So why is it that the news media were still unwillng to credit the electoral votes at that stage? Or earlier?
During the reporting of results, it seemed that the media were anxious to make early calls based on exit polling and very limited data when it was favorable to Kerry, but were less willing to do so when the results were favorable to Bush, especially in key states like Florida and Ohio. The August Free Press at http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader$28235 recently ran a great story revealing that two out of three studies of media coverage of the race concluded that most of the coverage leading to the election was more positive toward Kerry and more negative towards Bush. All of this seems to suggest that the media were more willing to slant their coverage in favor of their views rather than attempting to provide neutral and unbiased reporting. It also seems that they were unable or unwilling to understand what was important to the electorate. Perhaps some of them will read and heed the sage advice in Kay McFadden's column in The Seattle Times at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002081767_kay04.html where she suggests that "Perhaps the news machine's appetite for ratings fooled pundits into emphasizing hot flashes over sober analysis." Posted by WEBnME @ 11/05/2004 11:02:00 AM
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Election Results Update - Visiting the same URLs as shown below at 12:30 PM: ABC shows the electoral vote split as 254/242 noting that Bush has won. ABC's home page coverage notes that Kerry has conceded. CBS shows the electoral vote split as 274/252 noting that Kerry has conceded. CNN shows the electoral vote split as 254/252 noting that Kerry has conceded. FOX shows the electoral vote split as 274/242 noting that Kerry has conceded. MSNBC shows the electoral vote split as 274/238 noting that Kerry has conceded. Election results shown at 10 AM EST by various news sources vary. ABC shows 254 Electoral votes for Bush and 242 for Kerry with Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, and New Mexico undecided. CBS shows 254 Electoral votes for Bush and 242 for Kerry with Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin and New Mexico undecided. CNN shows 254 Electoral votes for Bush and 252 for Kerry with Ohio, Iowa, and New Mexico undecided. Fox shows 269 Electoral votes for Bush and 242 for Kerry with Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico and Nevada undecided. MSNBC shows 269 Electoral votes for Bush and 238 for Kerry with New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico and Nevada undecided. It appears that the 20 electoral votes from Ohio may not be determined until provisional ballots can be counted due to the close vote. Probably a lot of folks are holding their breath waiting to see how many provisional ballots have been cast to see whether the number is large enough to offset the margin between the candidates. If it is large enough, there could be a long wait. Under Ohio law these ballots will not be examined until November 13. Posted by WEBnME @ 11/03/2004 10:24:00 AM
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